State comparison · 2025
Database Administrators salary: Maine vs New Jersey
Database Administrators in New Jersey earn a median of $125,860. In Maine, $70,500. After cost-of-living, the gap is 37.2% — not 44%.
Nominal pay gap
-44%
Maine vs New Jersey
COL-adjusted gap
-37.2%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Maine
Database Administrators
- Median
- $70,500
- p25
- $59,340
- p75
- $99,400
- p10
- $51,640
- p90
- $118,950
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 97.1
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -33%
New Jersey
Database Administrators
- Median
- $125,860
- p25
- $94,020
- p75
- $159,880
- p10
- $69,080
- p90
- $176,130
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 108.8
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -39%
BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. Cost-of-living adjustment from BEA Regional Price Parities (overall index). Hiring velocity from DOL OFLC public disclosure data, recent 180 days vs prior. See methodology.